Dr. David Fernández-Llorca

David Fernández-Llorca received the MSc and PhD degrees in telecommunications engineering from the University of Alcalá (UAH), Madrid (Spain), in 2003 and 2008 respectively. At present he is Associate Professor at the Computer Engineering Department at the UAH, and a member of the INVETT research group. His research interests are mainly focused on computer vision, intelligent and autonomous vehicles, and intelligent transportation systems.

He is the author of more than 100 refereed papers in international journals and conferences and co-inventor of more than 12 patents including Surewash system. He has been recipient of the Prize for the Best Team with Full Automation of GCDC 2016, the 2013 IEEE ITSS Outstanding Application Award, the Best Young Researcher Award from UAH in 2013, the Best PhD Award by the UAH in 2008, the Best Research Award in the domain of Automotive and Vehicle Applications in Spain in 2008, the 3M Foundation Awards under the category of eSafety in 2009, the Master Thesis Award in eSafety from ADA Lectureship at the Technical University of Madrid in 2004, and the Best Telecommunication Engineering Student Award by IVECO in 2004. Dr. Fernández-Llorca is currently Associate Editor of the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems and Journal of Advanced Transportation, and he has served on Program/Organizing Commitees in more than 15 international conferences.